snowy mountains

Z: Mommy, do you know what a snowy mountain is?

M: Well, it's a mountain with snow on it.

Z: But why does that make the snowman get smaller?

M: What?

At this point Zoey proceeds to sing "Once There Was A Snowman" and instead of in the sun he melted, melted, melted, in the sun he melted small, small, small Zoey sings in the snowy mountain, mountain, mountain, in the snowy mountain small, small, small.


Too, too funny.

important matters

On the way home from the first day of preschool...

M: Zoey, did you see Kate, the little girl we met last week?

Z: Oh, yes, I did. Kate didn't listen during circle time. Mrs. Drew told us to sit criss-cross applesauce, like this (showed me in her car seat), but Kate didn't listen and just rolled around all over the floor. Didn't you tell me floors are dirty? (When I try to interject a response...) Maybe Kate's mommy didn't tell her floors are dirty because she just rolled and rolled. But do you know what? Kate had on a BEAUTIFUL dress!

I couldn't help but laugh because I had just read some readiness information my mom sent me. 3 year-olds should be able to string together 4-6 word sentences.

more spiders

The day after having a babysitter at our house Zoey said, "Mommy, guess what Carissa found in my tent!"
M: What did she find?

Z: Now don't freak out... she found a big spider!

Where did  my 3 year old learn the phrase don't freak out? Kind of funny!

spiders

We were at a friend's house swimming and she took a large bug out of the pool and threw it on the grass. Her two year old daughter asked, "Mommy, was that a spider?"

Before she could answer Zoey replied, "No, it wasn't a spider. My mommy didn't go 'aahhh!' when she saw it."

hand sanitizer

Zoey calls hand sanitizer hanitizer and it makes me laugh every single time. Today we took one of her friends to the park with us and I heard her say to Zoey, "What is hanitizer?" That made me laugh, too.

elephant

... and today Zoey said elephant - as opposed to enephant - and jumped up and down in excitement. "Mommy, I did it! I said elephant! Elephant! Elephant! Elephant! I am getting so big and strong now!"  Because being strong, everyone knows, improves one's pronunciation.

Sadness, again.

sadness

This morning Zoey asked me for a marshmallow for breakfast. Believe it or not, that's not the sad part. The sad part is that she actually said marshmallow as opposed to marshmayo. 


She said, "Mommy, may I please have a marsh... marsh... hmm... marsh... um... marshmallow for breakfast? Mommy! I said it! I said marshmallow! I did it!" and then proceeded to hop down the stairs saying marshmallow on each step. I nearly cried at watching her thought process and excitement over saying another word the "right" way.

She is changing so much recently. She's such a big girl and it still kills me.

Oh, and we didn't have any marshmallows in the kitchen so she didn't get one for breakfast, in case you were wondering.